Osama El-Lissy Director, USDA APHIS Emergency
Management, 4700 River Rd. Unit 134 Riverdale, MD 20737. Phone 301 734-5459 EMAIL: Osama.A.El-Lissy@aphis.usda.gov
AND Send a copy to: Ed
Schafer, Secretary of Agriculture United States Department of Agriculture 1400
Independence Ave. S.W. Washington, DC 20250 Email: AgSec@usda.gov
Our
federal governmental agency (USDA) – United States Department of Agriculture,
recently issued their 2008 “Environmental Assessment (EA)” of the “Treatment Program
for Light Brown Apple Moth in California.” (Read
report) Feb. 2008
"ANALYSIS
OF TOXICOLOGY STUDIES WITH LBAM AND RELATED LEPIDOPTERAN PHEROMONES" - prepared
by Richard B. Philp, D.V.M., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology,
The University of Western Ontario. He pokes holes in the USDA's report: "Treatment
of Light Brown Apple Moth in the Seaside Area in California Environmental Assessment
July 2007"
From
our understanding the LBAM came into our country either partly or entirely becasue
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) started inspecting incomming plants.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recommendations
of the Technical Working Group Technical Working Group Members: Vic Mastro,
USDA-APHIS-Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), Cape Code, MA Ken Bloem,
USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Raleigh, NC Eckehard Brockerhoff, ENSIS, Christchurch, Canterbury,
New Zealand Ring Carde, University of California, Riverside, CA (did not
attend S.J. meeting) Marshall Johnson, University of California, Riverside,
CA Dave Lance, USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Cape Code, MA Don McInnis, USDA-ARS,
Honolulu, HI Bob Staten, USDA-APHIS-PPQ (Ret.), Phoenix, AZ Max Suckling,
HortResearch, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand Bill Woods, Department of
Agriculture and Food, Perth,Western Australia
On October 16, 2007 Jim Warren with the USDA told
the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors and the rest of the community not to worry
because the number of microcapsules / microspheres per square foot would be an
average of 33. However, Duane Schnabel, primary biologist for the CDFA, collected
and analyzed the collection cards from the October, 2007 spraying in Monterey
and found that in spray zones, there were cards that had 809 microcapsules / microspheres
per square foot.
We cannot trust their assurances of safety and estimated
exposure levels!
-----------------------Auckland,
New Zealand-----------------------------
Government
of South Australiasays LBAM has, "Natural enemies of the egg,
larvae and pupa can maintain adequate control of this pest if the predators have
not been killed by orchard sprays for other pests"
Auckland,
New Zealand Connection. Yet again AG Kawamura caught in slanted
truths. He claimed that pesticides were sprayed over urban areas in Auckland,
New Zealand. However he failed to mention that they sprayed for the Painted Apple
Moth and not the Light Brown Apple Moth. AG also failed to mention there was a
major investigation which reveailed that that the "New Zealand government
failed to meet the basic responsibility of a government to protect its citizens
from physical harm."read more
USDA
Emergency Programs Manual see page 91 "Sociopolitical opposition
prevents emergency action. The plant pest is reclassified, so that it is
no longer an actionable pest."